The_Decryptor

He could have tried to fight the order, that’s what the previous management used to do.

Musk defends enabling Turkish censorship on Twitter, calling it his “choice”

It’s more like QEMU actually.

TypeScript is actually pretty nice, it’d be JScript instead.

Yeah, I think Windows actually handles it quite well, the actual filesystem has no notion of what the filenames are outside of basic “It’s UTF-16”, it’s the OS filesystem layer that handles all the quirks.

Because that’s what people seem to dismiss, there’s no one standard notion of case folding. It depends on the locale you’re using, and that shouldn’t be built into the FS itself. The classic one was the German “long S”, where “SS” should be case folded with “ß”, except they changed it in 2024 so now they shouldn’t match (“ß” becomes “ẞ” now), good luck updating your FS to support rules like that.

Now your shell? That’s easy, you can just warn the user that a “matching” filename already exists and prompt them to change it, and you can vary those warnings based on the locale, and you can push out updates as easily as any other patch.

Yeah I think they’re generally regarded as a mistake, browsers have removed all the UI signifying an EV cert these days.

I wish the tooling around Secure Scuttlebutt wasn’t so annoying to use, more attention might have had some of the rough edges filed off.

On one hand you can have an offline first replication method (Phones syncing messages over bluetooth, etc.), but then you can’t post from multiple devices without moving your account between them.

It’s also not a progressive JPEG either.

I should have and honestly might have, been long enough that I don’t remember that aspect.

So in the same week back in 2013 I did 2 things.

1. Buy a Star Citizen package with the game and a ship with lifetime insurance
2. Buy a 3 pack of hand built laser pointers from a local online store

Now the price wasn’t exactly the same, but close enough that I considered them equal. A week after buying the laser pointers I get an email saying that parts were on back order and there’d be a delay.

A week after that, their entire online store presence vanished, and they stopped responding to emails about my order.

To this day I’m still more salty about the laser pointers, since at least RSI keep sending me emails with updates.

2011? That’s basically last week right?

Support for it (and UEFI ) came with their push into servers, they were forced to make the platform a lot less special and more general purpose like x86 traditionally has been.

End user facing hardware is a different matter though, like I know you can boot the Raspberry Pi via UEFI/ACPI (It builds the ACPI tables in the bootloader), but then Apple doesn’t use it at all for their ARM hardware and it uses something closer to a modern OpenFirmware.

I think x86 is basically the only platform that’s used ACPI, other hardware usually ships a fixed hardware list in firmware that the bootloader/kernel can read (Since it’s not like the motherboards are modular, e.g. the RTC is never going to randomly be connected to a different controller)

Historically ARM didn’t even do that, it was mostly used in tightly linked systems so you’d just build those assumptions into the software itself (e.g. a Gameboy always has a directional pad on specific pins, so you just read those pins directly) I remember the early days of the Raspberry Pi involved device dependent kernel images because they had to code the specific initialisation routines into the drivers, it took a while for them to gain “device tree” support so you could have a generic kernel.

That’s “Extended ASCII”, basic ASCII only has upper and lowercase latin characters and things like <, =, >, and ?

And probably half of the control codes are still used, mostly in their original form too, teletype systems. They’re just virtual these days.

A place I worked at did it by duplicating and modifying a function, then commenting out the existing one. The dev would leave their name and date each time, because they never deleted the old commented out functions of course, history is important.

They’d also copy the source tree around on burnt CDs, so good luck finding out who had the latest copy at any one point (Hint: It was always the lead dev, because they wouldn’t share their code, so “merging to main” involved giving them a copy of your source tree on a burnt disk)

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Valve said the same about EA when they used them to publish the Orange Box, seems they’re great as partners but not owners.

For a while Google let you blacklist domains from search results, fantastic feature so of course they killed it off.

Never knew until I immigrated to the US. And even then, its merely a brief mention on it and calls it “communism” (its not lol) and then the teachers proclaim its why “communism” is bad, USA constitution rule of law blah blah.

That’s when you bring up Kent State

How about a 6.4TB sqlite database?

https://boyter.org/posts/searchcode-bigger-sqlite-than-you/

I’m not sure why they’re separate, but I thought it had the progress import that the other versions did? So you just load your existing player into the new version instead of starting from scratch.